Hi Folks,

The only thing more exciting than photography, for me, is meeting other photography lovers

I had a great time this weekend (on 18th July 2009) at the photowalk at Indore.

It was raining that day and all of us thought that the walk would be washed away, but fortunately it stopped raining as soon as all of us got together.

I had been in conversation with a lot of photographers from Indore using flickr, or forums or blogs etc but it was the first time when I met them face to face. It was exciting.

Here are some things that I learned for taking photos of flowers i.e. flower photography

1. Avoid direct sunlight on flower, use shade.

Bright lights cause harsh shadows and ugly looking photos.
Compare these two photos, one in bright sunlight and another shot in shade. I used my jacket to block the sunlight

2. Blur the background… use large aperture (small f number)

You get beautiful flowers photos if the main subject of your photo is a flower.
An effective way to achieve this is Use large aperture (small f number) to blur the background.

Hi Folks,
It gives me immense pleasure to invite you all to join me on a photo-walk on 18th July 2009.

I will be hosting the worldwide photowalk at Indore (MP) India.
You can read more about it on the photowalk page at worldwidephotowalk.com/indore-mp-in/

This is a very casual meeting of photography lovers from Indore where we plan to take some photos, share them with each other (and around 10,000 other photographers around the world) and just have a good time on a Saturday evening.

In recent times, all the SLRs and many compact cameras give you the option to shoot in RAW format. RAW data is the actual data recorded by the sensor of the camera and and is usually 12 to 14bit in size as compared to 8bits of JPEG or JPG.
As a rule, RAW always contains more data (i.e. more information about colors, tones, exposure etc) as compared to a JPG.

Now that you have a choice, the question is, which format should you use for your photos?

When people ask me for help to buy a DSLR, the first thing that I do is ask them to do some research about lenses first, instead of doing research for (aka Google for) camera bodies.

Find out a good lens in your budget and then go for a DSLR with the remaining amount.

You see, a new DSLR body is released almost every year. So you will usually upgrade to new body every two or three years, but the lenses will work for the life time.